HELP! I'm low on potassium.

BonnieSeelinger
BonnieSeelinger Posts: 23 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Anyone out there have any suggestions potassium rich foods besides celery and bananas? I need options. :)

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  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Cooked tomato products (tomato sauce, tomato paste, tomato juice, etc.)
  • dcgonz
    dcgonz Posts: 174 Member
    http://www.thepotassiumrichfoods.com/
  • militarydreams
    militarydreams Posts: 198 Member
    a baked potato... a potato with the skin on has more potassium than a banana gram for gram
  • mammothdoll
    mammothdoll Posts: 54 Member
    Coconut water!
  • llahairdna
    llahairdna Posts: 502 Member
    HIGH potassium (more than 225 milligrams per 1/2 c. serving)
    All meats, poultry and fish are high in potassium.
    Apricots (fresh more so than canned)
    Avocado
    Banana
    Cantaloupe
    Honeydew
    Kiwi
    Lima beans
    Milk
    Oranges and orange juice
    Potatoes (can be reduced to moderate by soaking peeled, sliced potatoes overnight before cooking)
    Prunes
    Spinach
    Tomatoes
    Vegetable juice
    Winter squash


    MODERATE (125 - 225 mg per serving)
    Apple juice
    Asparagus
    Beets
    Blackberries
    Broccoli
    Carrots
    Cherries
    Corn
    Eggplant
    Grapefruit
    Green peas
    Loose-leaf lettuce
    Mushrooms, fresh
    Onions
    Peach
    Pears
    Pineapple
    Raisins
    Raspberries
    Strawberries
    Summer squash, including zucchini
    Tangerines
    Watermelon
  • egiakatt
    egiakatt Posts: 90 Member
    Low sodium V8 juice, red bell peppers, sweet potato
  • katkat1717
    katkat1717 Posts: 143 Member
    Alot of the foods in the diary or even on the nutrition content themselves don't post the potassium! I like to keep my potassium high to counter-act the sodium. Some options are fruits (dried or fresh. though dried seems to have more), veggies, and if you like juices, pom pomegranate juice has a decent amount. The most i've found is v8 spicy hot low sodium has low sodium and extremely high potassium (1000mg) per 8oz. i'm not sure if the other flavors do, cause that's the only kind i get... If you need more options i would google it. :smile:
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,422 Member
    Any fruits or veggies are good.

    Since Potassium is rarely a depleted nutrient, it isn't a requirement on labeling in the US. The database here doesn't have many items listed with Potassium, for that reason. You probably get more than you think.

    All the Admin entered foods have it. Look for items with no asterisk in front of their names in the database. Those are entered by the site Admin.
  • ciaoella
    ciaoella Posts: 10
    Beet greens, potatoes with the skin on, sweet potatoes with the skin on, beet root, avocado, coconut water... even chia seeds have an okay amount.
  • Wendyt1971
    Wendyt1971 Posts: 9
    A good friend of mine has problems with it too. We have searched and searched and here are a few things he eats, cause he was bored with bananas too.

    Spinach - fresh is best, but canned has a ton too.
    Spaghetti O's - yes, seriously high in potassium
    Naked drinks - The green one has the most 400 mg, I think.
    Some yogurts - He wasn't real cool with yogurt.
    Some juices - I can't remember what we got the most, but I found several that were high in potassium. I wanna say grape was the best.

    Hope that helps! :)
  • Abells
    Abells Posts: 756 Member
    woop! raisins mmmmmmmmm
  • chrisb75
    chrisb75 Posts: 395 Member
    Coffee! 125mg per 8oz
  • LordBezoar
    LordBezoar Posts: 625 Member
    Out of curiosity, what's wrong with Bananas & Celery? Not necessarily together, of course...
  • ladykate7
    ladykate7 Posts: 206 Member
    I thought watermelon had more than bananas...
  • ashnm88
    ashnm88 Posts: 748
    a baked potato... a potato with the skin on has more potassium than a banana gram for gram
  • toffee322
    toffee322 Posts: 186 Member
    my yoga teacher always tells us to drink coconut water or emergen-c for potassium!
  • BonnieSeelinger
    BonnieSeelinger Posts: 23 Member
    Nothing wrong with bananas and celery. I just wanted some other options. I read that lima beans were good too, but I'm not gonna eat them every day. I like to change things up.
  • TitanGM
    TitanGM Posts: 1,161 Member
    Ver low in calories: Asparagus, Red peppers and Cucumber.
    Ok in calories: Sweet potato (huge potassium source)
  • gp79
    gp79 Posts: 1,799 Member
    pumpkin. Make some pumpkin pie (less the crust) It's too easy and tastes like....pumpkin pie.

    Morton lite salt. Ratio of potassium to sodium is favorable towards potassium.

    sweet potato

    banana

    Also, keep in mind that your idea of being low in potassium is limited by the MFP database. Poop in..poop out.
  • littlepinkhearts
    littlepinkhearts Posts: 1,055 Member
    I just started managing to get my potassium daily allowance. And i'm still working on it but here's what I use:

    Acorn Squash cooked 2 cups - 1792
    Potato 2 1/2 in diameter - 515
    Carrot raw (medium size)- 250
    Strawberries (frozen) 1 cup - 221
    Dempster's 12 Grain bread (one slice) 120

    I absolutely love acorn squash so I use that most often.
  • treetop57
    treetop57 Posts: 1,578 Member
    TOPIC: HELP! I'm low on potassium.

    Just out of curiousity, how do you know? Since US labeling laws don't require listing the potassium content of foods, the vast majority of the items in the MFP database list zero or NA, even if the food actually has a lot of potassium. Just because MFP says you are low on potassium doesn't mean you really are. Garbage in, garbage out.

    Edit: Xposted with GP79, who put it more colorfully than I did!
  • Di3012
    Di3012 Posts: 2,247 Member
    Anyone out there have any suggestions potassium rich foods besides celery and bananas? I need options. :)

    Potatoes, they are excellent for potassium.

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